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-T!» -W*'-'' <.>»-'->*^-~MS»a^|»5,^jH!»«ffi» t^msgfi.^wm'nfl'fffm -I': Hints for Busy Housekeepers. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^fuj^^^i^^^^ M^^f^^^M'i^K^ Radpe* »*i Otkcr Valitabte Inlannaittoa •I ftrtlCMlar bwrcst to Woomm FotkA S SEASONABLE RECIPES. Rhubarb Shart Cake.â€" No. 1 •One and one-half cups flour, one I duzi!n maca- T Clean the rust oS the ! clothesline with a woollen c dipped first in kerosene, then sand soap. I To insure finely flavored coffee : beat the dry ground coSee before adding boiling water. j When preparing meringue add one-half teaspoon of baking pow- der to each beaten white of egg. j Will be wonderfully improved. Powdered magnesia will effectu- '-JlSOHDAY SCHOOL LESSM n IB IXTERNHTIONAL LESSON, JUNE 18. stove until it thickens, add gelati.a '. be less apt to appear. „>.. â€" .„A a^^ .,,.t, anH m«p.a- I soap will last longer. Hoshea son of Elah- ' laao \f„= ir„ i*' i i. iu ' i ', great friends, and Mr. Bright call- I 18J2, ilrs. Van Wyk at the aire of i ^ i.i V^ ^.i i .^ cream and add uuts and maca- | -ap w.U iast longer. | Moshea son of Elah-There are ; 18 married Potrus Jacobu^Lubbe. ^ '.T^f^^ to'lov".' oToS^a roons ; add this to the first part | To prevent tomato soup from no special mamfestations ot ; At the end of two years she became ! i^^^ ^„^ hear him talk, and put in a, mold Cut in slices ! «"rdling add hot tomatoes (^7lth strength in the character of this ' a widow wUh one child. After be- "-»""'«:'" """ ^ and senc with whipped creamv ^ soda in) to the thickened milk. | king. To be sure he is singled out ing a widow for ten months, says This serves sixteen When making mustard add a tew [ of all the kings of Israel, for com- , the Volkstcm, she married Nicola- i.v„it fi-nair, _n P hnlf hnv ffpla-' drops of vinegar if you wish it to mendation (raiJiei negative) to the as Marthinus Pretorius, a widower irruit foam.â€" U..e-naii Dox geia ;, _ effect that, while he had done ! with four children. After living! tin, one-half cupful of water, two and one-half cupfuis of fruit juice, three eggs. Soak gelatin in cold water until dissolved, heat fruit juice (strawberry, raspberry, cur- rant, or grapes), pour over gela- tin, sweeten to taste, stir all to- keep. A NEW KIND OF LIBBA'RY. Belgian Government Conneita M'ith Post-oi&c-e Banks. some evil, it was not as the kings with him for a year and five months i j^^j^^^ ^^.,^^;^ ^,^j ^^^^ ^^ t., re- of Israel that were before him. But he also died leaving her with five ' ^^^^ -^ ^j^^ ^^^^^ ^^ j^g^^ ^1,^^ t^lk. he had none of the faith nor the , children. After five months ^he .^^d I determined to get under the It I positive qualities ot the reformer, married for the third time, i)avid ^^j^^ ^^^ ^^ jj^^g^ ^^ j^^ Bright. Doubtless he did not replace the I Stephanus Pieterse, a w^^io'e' Well, they Ijoth sat on the sofa, . ,• . , â-  w ru . calf at Dan which the Assyrians had i with seven children. and after a time things got a bi* ..fh.r «n,l «train and cool Beat • ^ °r .â- "''â-  u ^^r-""'^"°? l^'V;*''y taken away. But he lacked the en-' ^J ' '' j'^ ^^e lived eleven years I jj^, j j^^ ^,^g ^^f^ ^^hll' nfL, surf beat ?nto the '" *" "^ ^''^L^^ '^1 ^'^«'? ??l' I e^BX to bring back the old worship. , ^^d ^ ^^ven children, when he ; ^ ^^^^^ ^^^^^ '^^^-^ ^.^^ j^^ whites of eggs '''fAlid ^oa^ nour • ^"'°^°^- â-  ^^ ^'"'!t^* * ''"^'^l ^'^ I'xleed, he wems to have l:ved with ! "'^^ J^^; ^^^".^"^ y^ti", ^1 and I had to dodge and creep about jelly u"til It 3 a solid foam pour, ^ary consisting at the outset of 10,-L„e «ye upon the Assyrian power : o.^^ood «he carried for the fourth J ^^ getting crushed. into a wet mold, J'J^^^^'ll. 'e ^. ?'"°'^' 'f *" ^'^ "^^^.'^ ^"f* *°^ ' >^^<i ^J^e other upon hi^ own inter- . t"^e. I^a°'«l ^'^^^'^''L ^'"""^'.^ '• ^^ wrigglmg about, I pushed my whipped cream. Prepare day be- ^ inhabitant of any part of Belgium ^^^ jje was an opportunist, as he ' widower with eight children. With ; ^ fronf under the sofa Tlie who owns a post office savings bank | whipped creuui, one _ , I roons, one cup of nuts. Scald milk, I a^'y remove grease stains, sugar, and maple syrup, beat egg j ^^^ cornmeal into the boiling and 7ne^i"arf"Tca;^ons"Lkkinl|indjiddJ,ho above to it; set on the ; water for porridge, and lumps will powder, -one-fourth teaspoon salt, one-half cup butter, scant, milk enough to moisten. Mix flour, salt â- and baking powder. Rub the but- ter into this. Moisten with enough milk to make a stiff dough. Spread thin on a well buttered tin. Skin and cut thin a pound and a half of rhubarb. Add a cupful of sugar and shake well. Pour over this a custard made of a half cupful of sugar, yolks of two eggs, and a -cupful of rich milk . Pake twenty- five minutes. No. 2 â€" At night set a sponge with three-fourths of a pint of milk, one teaspoon salt, and one yeast cake, flour to thicken. In the morsiog •cream one-half cup of butter, one- half cup of sugar, and two eggs. Add a little nutmeg and a little lemon rind. Add sponge to this and beat well, then add enough ilour to make a thick batter. Pat in well buttered tins â€" it will make threeâ€" and let rise again. One can be used for the rhubarb cake and the other two can be made into coffee cake by spreading gen- erously with butter and sprinkling sugar and cinnamon on top. For the rhubarb cake boil a sauce of two pounds of rhubarb and a cup and a half of sugar. When coul add the yolks of two eggs. Pour this on the dough when raised and bake fifteen miuutes. Make a meringue of the wnites of eggs and brown Lightly. Ic is much nicer if t'he meringue is omitted and whipped cream ui served in its place on top. New Fruit Salad. â€" One can jliced pineapple, one-half can white cherries, two oranges. Ar- range the slices of pineapple on lettuce leavej. Mix the cherries and sliced oranges, and place upon the pineapple slices. Pour over each serving a large tablespoon of mayonnaise dressing ; sprinkle each with chopped pecan nuts. This Tecipe serves eight people. Lesson XII.â€" The downfall ot Sa- maria, 2 Kings 17. 1-18. Goidea Te.\t, Prov. 29. 1. Verse 1. The twelfth year of Ahaz â€" One of the worst led the people farther and farther away from God. till they forgot both their dependence upon him and their responsibility to him. 51 CALLED «£K MOTHEB. Buer Woman had 27 of Her Owa Be.>tides 24 Step-Childrcu. In the district of KroonstaJ, in the Transvaal, lives the Viidow Van Wyk, whose history, matri- monially and otherwi.se, is â€" not to put too fine a point upon it â€" some , . . T J L o , ? â-  ! ; '*^hat out of the common, says Lon- kings of Judah. See lesson for last j jon Tit-Bits. Born oa October 20, A "BBIGHr* GIBL. Lady Henry .Stanley Telh Two Good Stories. John Bright, the famous English statesnan, was intimately ac- quainted witli Mr. C'har'.os Ten- nant and Uicd often to visit him at h s home. Mr. Tennant's daugh- ter. Lady Henry Stanley, bod mauy pleasant recollections of tiie gri.-at orator and statesman, some of which are included by R. B. O'Brien in his biography of ''John Bright." Lady Stanley says: My father and John Bright were I remember one thing that hap- pened when I wa<s quite a little girl, about eight or ten. I knew I that Mr. Bright was <'oii;ing to see my father, and I thought that my was a puppet. It would have re- \ h'°J «]»« also lived eleven years and ; ^.^^-^ation suddenly Bright said : ceased, and sugar and two teaspoonfuls of gelatin. Boil one pint of sweet milk, pour over the eggs and he- â-  turn to double boiler until it thick- j ens, then add the four beaten ; w>hite3. Pour into a mold '/at;o | fore using Macaroon Pudding.-Beat the ! book will b^ entitled to "borrow I q^",^ ^"^'^^^f broadrdisintVresl ' *]^*|, ^""' yolks of four eggs with one cup f it ^^^ .^.^ive by mail ^n^, ^ ^t^t^^mc^n^hip, canr^iee, and xxn- f'^-J'lfJ^^'^ ^^%' ^^.^ ^^^^^ book for a fortnight upon having : ^.j^idi^g ^^^.^ ^^'^^^ to steer the j ^•^'' **»« ^'^ *^°»«' Hendrik Klop- twocentscheckedoff his account at I -j^ir^^ J battered ship through the P®,^.., .. . , ,. , , the post-office His deposit serves ^^orm/ waters of this eventful era. ' ™„„^''^^,„^!?«,„"„1^, .'^tl ^^211 as a guarantee for payment for, „ .; , , u^ u .. u years and had ten children, when books not returned. 3- ^oBhea . . . brought hina trib- j he also died. After two years she _ , As there are about 1,500 post- "'f~^^\^"'?il'**'°° was the re- • -^jarried for the si.xth time on this : which has been placed one dozen !„ffi,,3i„ Belgium, this will amount ^"^4°^^ Coenraad Hendrik | ^^^ son»ething older, that Mr crushed macaroons. Serve ice cold to the creation of a circulating Ub- 1 ^/^f ^f J^Jlf «" \^f„^' ^^'f of Ju . Van \\yk, a widower with five , g • j^ ^j,^ ^^ ,1^, ^„^,,^ .^^ ev- with whipped cream. . ! rary with some 1,500 branches, ^l^' ,*°** P«^''^' '^ "8 °^ J'f^r- : du dren, and with him she had four ^^.^^ ^^^ ^ut When tlie ser- Lemon Pudding.-^cald one pint ^^^se risks will be more than cov- Th« former had called m Tiglath- children . ,. ^ ^ ^ ' va^ oje^ed the door he told Mr. of milk, add a large cup of bread ; .^ed by the deposits in the savings P^l^^^'-^o defend him against Pe- After having lived together for ^^.^ht'^that no one was at home, umbs and one tablespoon of but- ; ^anks. !i*t t"*^,*^! ''l" * °^ ^^''*- 7^'f ' tt'''V^'''^\^^ also died. She had f ^^ ^psV.ir^. Pakah had been disposed of, thus fifty children, who called her t i j\w «..,â€"♦ ....i,^ v,..,) /.«n Hoshea, who was a conspirator, ', mother and about 270 grandchild ^ I asked the servant who had call- was given this vassal sovereignty in | ren. She is still alive at the age •Why, Mr. Tennant, there is something under the .sofa'. Look!" and .so my father pulled me out, and I said that I wanted to hear Mr. Bright talk, and that was the - reason I got under the sofa. I remember another day, when I lide i cr ter. Let boil up once and set asv to cool. When cool stir into the milk the beaten yolks of three CZABVITCH BUILDS SHIPS. STRAWBERRIES. Strawberry Kiss,â€" Whites of three eggs beaten stiff, add one -cup of granulated sugar, one tea- spoonful vanilla, one teaspoonful vinegar pinch of salt, continue to â- beat for a few minutes. Put in a loose bottom cake tin that has been buttered and bake for a half hour in a very slow oven. When readj- to serve add one quart of straw- berries that have been cut in half and sugared, cover with whipped hnlf CUD of suear and' Samaria. From inscriptions we of 73 years. the grated r?nd of one lemon. Bake i ««•« <» T«y Navy Yard With Naval learn that the tribute was a hea^T «gKS, one- twenty minutes Beat the whites I Enginfer as Tutor. ^ one, ten talents of gold ($200,000) of the three eggs, ddd one-half cup j Six-year-old Grand Duke Alexis, *°«1 l-^^ talents of silver-X81,- suirar and the juice of the lemon. [ heir to the throne of all the Rus- ^oO.OOO). Spread over the top of the pud- ' sias, seems to have inherited a \ 4. The king of Assyria shut him ding and brown. i taste for shipbuilding from his il- upâ€" This is all we know of the fate A Pudding Help.â€" All set pu<i- ' lust(;ious ancestor Peter the Great, of Hoshea, except a possible hint GU.VRDS FROM TUE TOWER. The Bank of England in to be Pro tected by Tbcm. Hereafter the Bank of England g^id ed. He said, 'Mr. Bright," where- ujlbn I dashed away from the maid who was attending to my toilet, rushed downstairs, and ran into the street, following Mr. Bright aa fast as I could. I got up with him just as he was entering Palace Yard. I put roy hand into his arm and swung him right round, and din 2S will be found to have a much! ,ho went to Holland 200 vears ago, in Micah 5. 1. Some conjecture is to be protected by the guards more delicate flavor if the pudding at the age of 25, in disguise, and that a battle was fought, and the ' from the tov.er instead of by one of f4i«V, is nlaced in a pan of water : worked for wages as a ship's car- king captured, before the walls the battalions at Chelsea or Wel- the oven to bake i penter under the name of Peter of the capital. At any rate, the Imgton Barracks. With this change penter under the name of Rke Pudding.â€" Wash one cup Timmerman, lodging in a rice thoroughly. Drop it in one I housem Saardam small Let boil twen cause of this sudden vengeance is '" kuo um tusiuiu. ui uaiuj^ uic not hidden. Hoshea was playing a S^ard^ march nightly to the bank Little Alexis has had a complete ' double and losing game. If his , wjH be revived. ?^ J^inZs Take two cups cooked â-  miniature navy yard constructed ; cessation of payment of the annual . Providing a garrison for Ihe bank tj minutes, lake two cup ^^^ , ^^^ ^^^^ ^^^ ^^^ ^.^ ^^ ^^^ bor- tribute had been followed immedi-^^tes back to 1780 the time, of the " " fal of the Egyp- ' Gordon riots. The mob ight have won. l^-ea^y ^aken Newgate, n the procrastin- 5«"^y ^°'" u* A'L^''^ c'," ^^^ . When it was ' */«*«'^'"y' ^"^^ ^^^, ^«8. ° teaspoon butter, f^ers of a lakelet in the grounds of ] ately bv the arrival of the Egyp- nce. Six. tablespoons cups milk, one ^"f,';""'" "â€" -^ I his father's palace at Tsarskoeselo. one-half teaspoon ^-^V^j^*- ^^f^ , There he amLes himself wth build- "•-•,',"â- ',""â-  1 „j ;„ r.an nf iDg fflodcl ships. War and «ther and bake in cups P'-^"^*! '° P*" ^ . craic. under the e.xpert tuition of a water. Serve with sweetened cream , ^^^^^ engineer, seasoned with nutmeg. I a. Suev.â€" Crush MICROBES BY THE MILLION. Germs are the latest weapon of doctors. There has been a curious Fruit Chop Suey.â€" Crush one quart of strawberries, pl*ce in dishes, ready to serve, which have been lined with crisp lettuce leaves, garnish berries with small cubes of case under treatment at St. Bar- oranges, beat white of one egg to | tholomew's Hospital, in London, cream and serve same as short I a stiff froth, sweeten to taste, drop ; England, for sohie time, and 400,- cake. This quantity is enough for on center of fruit, place a ripe ^ 000,000 microbes have been reared six i^ersons. borry in this, add sliced bananas, ' for the cure of one patient. Chron- Strawiberry Jam.â€" Use fine scar- Lnd serve. This will serve six per | ic empyema is the troubleâ€" an in- let berries, weigh and boil themLjns and prove not only a pala- i flamniation of the coverings of the for thirty -five minutes, keeping table dish but also an attractive lung. Irrom the lung secretions them constantly stirred. Add eight and economical dessert. tian forces, ht might have won. j ''ea^y .'^^''^ , Newgate, But hia ruin was i- *^- »'"- ' '"^'^y ^"^ * ^'"^''^ "» '"« ation of King So too late Hoshea tried to ate Shalmaneeer with gifu,. ""'; fiunhiU fields the Assyrian monarch was aware of his duplicity. I 6. Ninth vear of Hoshea â€" Sa- i and was nation's f grena- nrooiti- ' '^^^'^ overawed the rioters, who ifta But ' ^leparted very peacefully to»'ard ' Bunhill fields. Since that time the bank hae had a nightly guard of Grenadiers or Coldstreams to strengthen the gar ounces of good sugar to the pound of fruit, mix them well off the fire. Then boil again quickly for twea- ty-five minutes. Take off the scum and pour into jars or glasses. Preserved Strawberries. â€" • Pro- â- cure fresh large strawberries when in their prime, but not so ripe as to be soft. Hull them and weigh them, take an equal weight of augar, make syrup, and when boil- ing hot put in the berries. A email quantity only should be done at once. If crowded they will become mashed. Let them boil twenty minutes or a half hour, turn into tumblers or small jars and seal while hot. In pouring hot fruit in- to glass put in a silver spoon first; it will temper the glass and keep it from breaking. Do not use tin, iron, or pewter spoons for stirring iruit as they convert the color of red fruit into a dingy purple and impart besides a very unpleasant 4avor. PRESERVING. Strawbei'.-y Preserve.â€" Pound for pound of berries and sugar. Pour augar on with very little water And boil until thick syrup. Cool 4 little to test it. Remove from fire, add berries and the juice of â- one lemon for each two quarts of berries, then cook twenty minutes xioro to make thick and seal. Tasty Relish. â€" Two quarts of aliced rhubarb, one pound raisins, one-half pound English walnuts, lour oranges (chopped), three pounds sugar. Cook altogether thirty minutes and put in glasses. Plum Conserve. â€" Three pounds «t blue sweet plums, three pounds â- ot granulated sugar, one ix)und of seeded raisins, one-fourth pound <>{ English walnuts, two oranges; fit the plums, chop the oranges and walnuts; cook all together three- fourths of an hour, or until thick, and put in glasses and seal. A fine relish. DESSERTS. Maplo Pudding. â€" One cup c! ailk, three-quarters cup of maple ^yrup, one cup of sugar, one egg, oae-haK box gelatin, one pint of HOUSEHOLD HINTS. Traces of mud may be removed germs were collected, and the de- scendants of these â€" of three dis- tinct tribes â€" when they have grown to a set microbe strength are kill- ed by heating. Then 10,000,000 Now you must come back with me. I know you called, and they .said everybody was out, but I waa not out." He laughed and came back with me, and then I gave him tea, and he talked away to me. * LIVELY FLOWERS. A New Species Discovered in aa African Forest. Natures protective schemes are varied and curious, and deceive the human as well aa the animal intel- ligence. J. W. Gregory in "The Great Rift Valley" describes a new flower which he came across m an African forest. He says : Walking througl*the woods, my attention was attracted by a large brightly colored flower liko a fox- glove. It had been raining heavily. the from black materials by rubbing dead naici;obes of each variety arc , gj^ed o„ the tablets in with slices of raw potato. , injected, in solution, under ♦•'- Stains in table linen may be easily removed by plunging the articles in pure boiling water. Soap and water would have the ef- fect of fi.xing the stains maria was taken B. C. 722. Sar- j fig^n ^f clerks and porters who gon, probably a usurping officer of | patrol the building. The soldiers the army, had succeeded Shalman- ; are made very comfortable, the escr the year before. Samaria was ; commanding officer being provided not destroyed. The inhabitants who â-  „ith a dinner for himself and two were carried away in captivity were ' friends and an allowance of wine. - , â- â€¢ u .^v replaced by foreign colonists, under t The vaults of the Bank of Eng- 1 *»« everything was so sodden witfc ' moisture that collecting was use- less. 1 would have passed this specimen had I not noticed some white, fluffy patches below tho flower, which I recognized as a cer- tain kind of lichen which does not and children flocks and wagons is i lies piled on trucks (to facilitate ', usually grow on flower stems. I and children, tlocks and «agons,^.s j ^^^^P^^^ ^^ ^^^^^ v^^^.^^^ the ! Pushed my stick through the bush Assyrian governors. ; land frequently contain $250,000, Placed them in Halahâ€" North of, 000 in money. The lock of the Thapsacus, on the Euphrates. Sar- i vaults requires several keys, each gon reported the number as about: in possession of a different person. 27,000. The record of these whole- 1 Access is obtained through heavy sale deportatioms of men, women, I iron doors to where untold gold , , ,. ^, J . i gon's palace at Khorsabad. The skin of the patient s arm, and, at. ^^^^^ .^ ^j^^ ^^^^ ^^ ^^^ ^^^^„ intorvals larger doses are given, i^i^^^our. a river in northern As- t.ll, flnaHy, 100,000 000 ge run. can | . .^^^ ^^^ Euphrates, be injected atone time! The skin, -^ '^.^^^ », Israel-Jeroboam, the calf-worship. walls in sacks. trouble known as acne is another \ °- ^'"*^„ " , fhich the specialist nowadays who introduced PINEAPPLE'S MANY VIRTUES. to pull the flower toward me. when, to my surprise, all the flowers and bud.s jumped off in all directions. There were similar clusters near, and when Mr. W^atson came up, I fifteen injections are first alone sometimes containing over 300,000,000 microbes. Carpets are n>ade bright and aH -â€" - 'h;â€"^^^^^ was responsible for most new by sprinkling w th coarse ^^^^^^ injections are made, the ! Ba»l-worship in Israel, are esp.ci- salt, and sweeping briskly with a damp broom. The color is restor- ed, and the carpet is not injured by this process. New walking shoes sometunes "slip at the heels !.iid cause a nasty blister. This can be prevented by rubbing the inside of the shoes at the heel with a piece of dry soap before putting them on. Gilt frames should not be wash- Invaluable in Destroying FtoLson- 1 Pointed out one and asked him it he knew its genus. He said he did ous ^i!«^^ue« OS in Diphtheria. Fresh pineapple juice has great not, although he had seen it before. Ho tried to pick one, and was as QUEEN VICTORIA AND BIBLE. At Night She Visited Prince Coa- sort*s Boom to Read It. Addressing the Church Mission- ary Society the other evening, Lord Blytheswood. known as the Ilev. ally in the thought of the writer as ; value as a digestive. A small | surprised at the result as I. he digresses to summarize the les- j amount will digest a considerable fhe arrangement of the insect, sons of his story. j piece of steak or any other animal colony was that of green bud» 9. Tower . . . fortified cityâ€" That tissue. Boiling, however, seems to ' above and pink flowers below. Wej U-: .. 1 jj.-jj j.jj^ enzymes in the pineapple, i never would have dreamed that so that after canning it loses its they were insects, although Mr. digestive power. Watson was an enthusiastic botan- The peculiar property of pine- 1 igt. apple juice makes it of value inj The female lays its eggs aa it 13. By every prophet-'Israel had , many ways. For instance, in diph- 1 walks up the "stem ; the lowest failed in her "high mission in spite i theria, it is used as a gargle, and hatch first, which fact explains the of the warnings <»nd exhortations the diphtheria membrane disap- 1 apparent indifference in flowers is, they set up their secret bowers and wicked images no"t only in populous but also in sparsely set- tled places, such as sheepfolds and vineyards. ed. merely rubbed with chamois. If Sholto Douglas before his succes ^^ ^_^ __ ^ __ _^^^ dull they" should be brushed with sion to tho peerage, stated that he i ^j ^^^j^ ^^^^ ^^ Ahijah, Elijah, Eh- Pea^s like magic at its touch. It i and buds. Whether the insects can liouid strained irom the boiling once preached by command at,- ^|^^ j^j.^.^^^ j^jj^^,^^ .^^^^^ jj^^^gg^ seems to have the power of picking resume this arrangement on tha of four onions in water which has Windsor, and after the service been tinted to a golden color by flowers or sulphur steeped m it Before laying carpets spread newspapers over the floor, and if you have any fear of moth, scatter some pryethrum powder about When frying fat catches fire, do not pour water on it, as it only spreads the tlame. A handful of earth or flour will quickly quench the flames. Wrap stale loaves in a cloth, dip into hot water for half a minute, take off the cloth, and bake for a quarter of an hour in a steady oven. This will make them like new bread. Never sweep dust from one room to another, nor from upstairs to the lower part of the house. Al- ways take it up in a dustpan where you have previously placed some damp tea-leaves. When cooking spinach cook in a cheese-cloth bag, easily lifted and drained dry. Pad the ironing board on both sides. Use one side for white goods; the other for colored. A teaspoonful of glycerine added to the rinse watfcr makes woollen blankets come out like new. . , ^Nahum, Oded, and Jehu. The o"* a^ "'>n-l>^ing .a"'"'-^! ^^^s''^" received a niost gracious message , ^^^^^^^^^ ^^ ^^^^.,^ ^^^^^ ^^^^^ how ; and rapidly digesting them, leav- from Queen Victoria to visit the , ^^^ ^^^^ ^.^^ j^^^ ;^^^ ^^ j^^^^j , ,ng all living tissues. Incases Castle. I was brought at lapt to I ^^^^ ^^ i„Wah I "f quinsy, pineapple juice digests a private passage, and waa told that down that passage at night her Majesty came along to the room where the late Prince Con- sort died. On a chair in that room was a large Bible, and chair every night the Queen re the Bible, which had been such a blessing to the country ever which she reigned so long." than to Judah. 16. Asherah â€" Singular of Asher- im. Lewd images, presumably of the Phoenician goddess Ashtoreth. The worship of the starry host of on that i heaven was borrowed from the .\s- ad 1 Syrians. It is neN^ir mentioned in the Mosaic law until after the Israelites had come in contact with these eastern peoples. It's better to be long headed than headlong. But a practical joke isn't funny when the reaction sets in. , Why do friends of the bride al- ways cry at a wedding, while the friends of the groom always give him the laugh. Doctorâ€" My dear lady, you are in perfect health. I can't find a thing the matter with you. Patient â€" I wish you'd try again, doctor. I do so want to go away to recuperate. Wifeâ€" "John, there must be a lot Husband all poisonous tissue, often giving quick relief. Sometimes it i» not best to incise or lance a boil, and the yellow cap may often remain upon the boil without opening, holding back the pus. The application of pineapple juice invariably establishes free drainage within a short time. For administration in the stom- 17. Caused their sons ... to pass 1 ^^y^ pineapple acts, adds the Fam through the fire â€" These were rites connected with the worship of Mo- loch, learned from .\mmon and Moab. They weve prohibited in both Leviticus (18. 21) and Deuter- onomy (12. 31 ; IS. 10). .\haz is said to have made his son pass through the fire (2 Kings 16. 3). The pur- pose of this hideous sacrifice was apparently to proijitiate the Deity by the yielding up of the most precious possession. Divination and x^nchantmcnts â€" These were practiced by means of belomancy (Ezek. 21. 21-22). and ne- cromancy. The curse of all thi.'' an of iron in your system." â€""Why do you think 30?" Wifeâ€" "Because you invajiably lose your! immoral purposes, connected temper when you get hot." '*•»* h«i».th*iii idolatries, was. t ily Doctor, as a preventive rather than a cure. It cannot quickly cor- rect an acute attack of indigestion, though it may prevent an attack. d the"" selling of themselves for I t''e:;i away â-  â-  a tn'n"; « IhcTu heriulf Lots of b.ichelors would make good husbands, if the girls could only make them think so. Q. â€" Why is an ac(iuitted prisoner like a gun 1 A.â€" Because he is tak en up, charged, and then let off. Grig.s(sâ€" "Weren't .you surprised that the customs inspector didn't find those things you smuggled in'" Briggsâ€" "Oh, no; my wife stow'etl She can pack things in ^y[l)y a trunk uherc she cau't oven find the heathen idolatries, was, that it stem after having been distu.'-bed. I do not know We watched for hours, but not one came back. __ + GOING AHEAD. "I wanter give notioe, mum! blurted Mary Ann, one morning. Mrs. Skinniflint looked pained and surprised. "May I ask why, Ann 1" she in-i quired. •â- Well, mum, if you w.-inter knowi the truth, I'm engaged to be mar-' rietl." "Indeed ! I am sur Mrs. Skinnflint freezi let me warn you against these fri-j volous, marriage-seeking young) men ! You would do better to stayj with us. if you have not given tioj matter the most serious considera-i tion '." "Yes, mum, but I have," an- swered the precautious domestic. , "I've been to two fortune-tellers, and a clairvoyant, and looked in a, sign-book, and dreamt on a lock of' his hair, and visited an astrologer and a palmist, and they all say, 'Go ahead, Mary .\nnâ€" go ahead 1 Oh, no mum, I ain't a one to marry reckless-like 1" irpriscJ :" siiiJB Bzingly. "Bul^